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ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: do you want
a rehash of the GUD stuff?
a wholesale reexamination of every point in the piece?
ben_vulpes: please bear with me for
a moment, hashes are then actually
a sortable thing,
a la...integers?
ben_vulpes: i must now admit to only
a kindergarten level understanding of data structures, for any who remain un-clued-in to this fact
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: re handwriting, it is
a mystery for the ageists
thestringpuller: mod6: was this started from
a /clean/ env or is this trying to load up
a blockchain from christmas past? << I completely nuked the datadir .bitcoin with rm -rf *; whenever I do an rpc call after the thing _tries_ to spin up, it borks. crashes without anything except what was in the db.log. I'm almost certain it's an issue with bdb because no blocks are downloaded or anything. cause it connects to the node I specify gets basic
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 14:41:47; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if laptop needs external cooling, it's
a pos
Azelphur: Haven't been active in here in
a while, howdy :)
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 20:57:04; mod6: trinque: could deedbot be easily copied and modified to just have variable paste retention into
a webdir or db of some kind? it wouldn't send to the blockchain like deedbot. then we could just have our own `pastebot'? is this dumb?
mircea_popescu: as if any judge has the authority to order such
a wonder.
mircea_popescu: it's about this world.
a small town next to bakersfield (
a sort of california's own ohio)
mircea_popescu: it's about california being dumb in
a different color scheme , i guess.
mircea_popescu: fucktards are advertising coca cola with their own money, out of every single drink coca cola makes
a dollar fifty if they make
a dollar.
mircea_popescu: "The growing public attention sparked by the investment became both
a heaven and
a hell. On one hand, during the course of Gowalla’s life we received more tech press coverage than is right and holy for any startup. On the other, I dare you to find
a post about Gowalla that doesn't mention Foursquare."
mircea_popescu: apparently that pointless foursquare thing is somehow
a success that had it's own wanna-bes that meanwhile died.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 20:49:00; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352382 << the concept is sound, however mind that we don't end up with as many patches as linechanges. "one thing" should be liberally construed, "removing remaining wxisms" seems
a one thing for me.
mircea_popescu: these idiots aim to "revolutionize", "improve" and ultimately save
a world they do not wish to ever see.
mircea_popescu: this is not
a trend among the newly "creative" worthless class, not getting out of the building.
mircea_popescu: in general, socal ditz does not call the other socal ditz "like, totally,
a slut" for any other reason than you know, the slut getting the attention of the boys she wanted for herself.
mircea_popescu: "Socialists revile the church not for its promulgation of irrational faith but because historically churches have championed the improvement of the world as
a thing that the devoted do—not
a thing which may (or even should) be outsourced to le etat." << quite exactly.
mod6: maybe
a dumb idea. and maybe it can't be easily modified to do that.
mod6: sometimes,
a guy just has to derp around
mod6: trinque: could deedbot be easily copied and modified to just have variable paste retention into
a webdir or db of some kind? it wouldn't send to the blockchain like deedbot. then we could just have our own `pastebot'? is this dumb?
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 20:30:58; asciilifeform: ideally
a tmsr 'pastebin' would take input by gpg --encrypt --recipient thingspubkey... | curl -X POST ...
mod6: i'll test
a bit as I said and then re-publish
a new one when complet.e
mod6: anyway, i'll keep testing on this for
a bit and see how it goes. and if all is well, i'll repost the entire thing (including the few changes to the automated tests) to the ML
mod6: all: btw, if you do use the above test patch for V, please remember you may need to run
a dos2unix on the dpaste [dpaste.com/12M99KB.txt]
mod6: but.. yeah,
a separate thing that could be fed for this purpose would be super great
mod6: well, the ML has
a place - although, the filename munging would be nice to go away.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> speaking of which, we still need
a thing where folks can drop in vpatches and sigs and redraws the flow graph << mine does this.
shinohai: Been
a few weeks but I manually created it and added everyones keys, but once I made it everything works fine
mod6: yeah, the documentation says that you need to 'create
a ~/.wot directory' -- which will have to change, but 'you need to create' is the hint in there.
mircea_popescu: Quennesson had noted that the more photos he took, the less likely he was ever to look at any one of them ever again. "People take more and more photos, but paradoxically, they become more and more disconnected from them," he said last month in
a conference room at their co-working space. "You don’t want to go back to this whole life that you’ve captured, which is counterintuitive. It's the most important thing —
mircea_popescu: here's
a fun fact : the classical gestapo didn't know what to do to keep the idiot population from givingthem tips.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and for this exact reason medicine is
a losing proposition. except THAT gets swept up into "obamacare" and so on. there's not going to be an obamacare for photographolalia, your ft meade wet dreams notwithstanding.
mircea_popescu: after reading that sort of nonsense i half expect the author has some "science" in
a jar in his basement
mircea_popescu: "By 2009 both men had left Apple and were working at Cooliris, which makes photo viewing software. Latour set up an office for Cooliris in Japan, and after spending some time traveling through Asia with his girlfriend, he became frustrated with how difficult it was to store and organize all the photos he was taking. He discussed an early idea for
a product with Quennesson, who was interested in using math and science t
mircea_popescu: dude wtf,
a) never heard of it and b) it fucking sucked, get lost.
mircea_popescu: "Out of the picture: why the world's best photo startup is going out of business. Everpix was great. This is how it died. The immediate concern in the room was
a forthcoming bill from Amazon Web Services, which hosts the 400 million photos stored with Everpix; the team estimated the bill would be about $35,000."
mircea_popescu: "Our first beta test was
a disaster when Amazon (who was our payment processor) suspended our account for not complying with money transfer issues. Fans were able to participate in the sale, but we were unable to capture their billing. We ended up paying the artist out of our own pocket and giving everyone his music for free (and we never told him that happened until now)." <<< derps were going to bypass amazon on an
a mircea_popescu: hard to beat "cheap calories" as
a warm blooded lifeform.
punkman: mircea_popescu: you gotta at least move your limbs
a bit, no?
mircea_popescu: punkman i never had
a tailor go "breathe in" "now exhale" before.
mircea_popescu:
a) the people who had
a dacha were happy as is, no need to chase it
mircea_popescu: We added
a line of jersey basics to our denim line, packed up our lives, ended the lease on our house, loaded our portfolios and patterns into suitcases and boarded
a plane for Malaysia, where I had some contacts in the manufacturing industry. At one factory after another, we were wooed by the boss, we got the grand tour, we were asked our volume projections…. and we were shown the door. Our (very inflated) annual fo
mircea_popescu: "So we decided to wholesale, on the condition we could establish
a cost-effective supply chain. This might all seem like
a juvenile, ill-informed, poorly researched, gamble. And it was mostly, but I heard an irrepressible voice day and night,asking what if it works?
mircea_popescu: "Why did we launch with 12 million variants? Because we thought we needed to. Would the market have been happy to customise just the length? If we’d done proper validation, we would have known, that yes, it would have been happy — thrilled even. It only became apparent, too late, that 90% of our orders were for very typical jeans from atypically tall women. Stonewashed stovepipes with
a 36-inch leg, anyone?"
mircea_popescu: s hours, and when I went off to
a night job managing
a restaurant, she’d code, with Sex and the City for company, until 1 or 2am when I stumbled in again from night shift."
mircea_popescu: "Partnering with
a uni friend, we pitched our concept to
a whole bunch of web developers we knew. The challenge we posed was that it couldn’t be customisation by drop-down list or radio buttons (solutions we were offered repeatedly). This was 2005. We needed to show customers high-quality photographic customisation, where every selection changes your product. Custom-made product required
a strict no-refund policy, so
mircea_popescu forces slavegirls to eat livers. it's
a show, i tell you.
mircea_popescu: yup. take chicken liver. i love it. so does everyone who had sane enough parents to have it as
a kid.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 19:04:16; punkman: mircea_popescu: more along the lines of "Why don't you try being
a gluten-tard? Might be just the thing for you"
mircea_popescu: rly in those bars without being there. It quickly become
a distraction to our operations in San Francisco."
mircea_popescu: "We hired
a local operations manager in Denver (Sasha Juliard) and soon launched at Shotgun Willie’s (the highest-grossing strip club in CO) and two other bars. We made about $1,200 on each deal (50% went to DexOne, we spent $800 on each launch event and we had $500 in hardware costs), this was the only sales revenue Flowtab ever made. We were tightening up our sales process, but it was hard to market ourselves prope
☟︎ punkman: mircea_popescu: more along the lines of "Why don't you try being
a gluten-tard? Might be just the thing for you"
☟︎ punkman: I saw gluten-free bread in the local bakery earlier this year. The only bread that had
a brochure and brand-name. Didn't last long.